Author reports that Kansas State has offered a news writing course for agricultural students for more than a decade, and with good results.. Believes a course in news writing should not be a universal requirement in the agricultural college curriculum, but emphasizes skills in English.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 55 Document Number: C01294
Notes:
See C02027 for original. Claude W. Gifford Collection., Pages 39-53 in Hays, Robert G. and Evans, James F., eds. (1983) The Agricultural Communicator Today and Tomorrow : four professional views. Urbana, IL : University of Illinois, College of Agriculture, Office of Agricultural Communications. Speech presented at the University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, April 8 1981)
Supports training of agriculture students in news-writing, and argues that they also should be trained in public speaking. Also: "it would seem that agricultural students should by all means know or learn how to make a living with their hands on land before they take up news-writing and public speaking. Our national literacy of the head is far greater than our literacy of the human hand. We cannot take much of a hand in nation-building from the ground up unless we have trained hands, even in this machine age."
